Greedy Goblin

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Weekend minipost: awox

You could read in the minutes (relevant parts collected by James315), that CCP plans to ban highsec awoxing, but not limiting highsec wardecs. This is what The Mittani wanted and you can read Goon CSMs supporting it strongly.

I already wrote why it's a horrible idea and an evil plan by the Goons to stop influx of new players to pirate groups that are dangerous to them, so here is just a summary:

A competent, PvE oriented highsec group has much more to fear from wardecs than awoxes. If they are wardecced, they can't make profit. Also, they have value to be taken, so wardeccers seek them. To avoid such destruction, competent PvE players stay in NPC corps or 1-man corps (Red Frog uses out-of-corp alts for driving freighters, so it applies to them too). While all corps can be wardecced, there won't be competent PvE corps, only PvP corps and failcorps.

Awoxing threatens failcorps that are unworthy of wardeccing. You can't really wardec a "mining corp", they just stay docked during the war. It doesn't break their income, because it was horrible before the war. But you can awox them for their tears. While such griefers are despicable, they do an important service: destroy these horrible corps that teach players bad habits and make them believe that EVE is about grinding for horrible ISK/hour.

So in the current system a player who wants to be in a corp will sooner or later ends up in a PvP corp (most likely EVE Uni, RvB or BRAVE) and learns to play above the level of an AFK miner, so poses a threat to the status quo. The Goons want to prevent this by letting failcorps to linger and collect the new players, who will either quit or turn into yet another Raven leveler, harmless both cases.

CCP should either allow good PvE corps to exist (by removing wardecs against corps that have no structures and no alliance membership) or let awoxers continue to destroy horrible corps.

9 comments:

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This change does not prevent corp theft. What it does is close a hoop hole to an intended mechanic that Concord punishes criminal aggression. It's the same as RR cordokken and can flipping. If you are rob a corp of the majority of its assets, then in all likelihood a "horrible corp" will fold.

The problem is not the game mechanics, but the stupidity of players.DO NOT JOIN A CORP! Unless you MUST! (Nulsec, Alliance).Mining is not a taxable activity.If you missionrun, create your own corp (1-Man or with a Noctis alt).As long as there are no structures that are exclusively accessible to Corp members, no Corp membership is needed!

The reason why people join corporations is that they know guilds and clans from other mmos... And falsely assume that they will benefit in eve too...

You are missing the point Goblin. This change is not to protect newbies from getting awoxed. It's a way to make a large number of high sec corps (including several decent ones) actually accept new players (which need guidance and a social environment to become engaged in the game).

This does very little to lolcorps, as they will probably continue afk mining and running missions under wardecs.

Remember, the most optimal way to play the game in Highsec right now is to actually NOT join a corp because it's more of a liability than an advantage.

its story time. once upon a time, when i was only 2 weeks into playing eve, i joined a failcorp. there was no security whatsoever, and the focus was hisec mining. i had my procurer, and we had a guy with a half-dozen accounts running an orca boost.

so, one day the Awoxing starts. now, half the corp is offline anyhow, but the founder ragequit when an Awoxer killed his Tengu. think about this for a moment- this was not the first awox, and not the last. but he ragequit and left the corp, and later i noticed he was selling his character. his buddy with the orca was the next CEO, and left as soon as he found out what happened. the third CEO tried, but there was a wardec, the CEO was offline all week, and the director who actually did anything quit as soon as the wardec hit. the corp closed a week later when the CEO logged back in and realized he was along with people who would never log back on.

thats what a failcorp looks like. the awoxers put 'i shoot blues' in their bio after the fact. the only 'content' was the corp getting cheap ore from gullible miners, and PvPers ganking defenseless barges in hisec without needing to lose their ships.

now, preventing that crap from happening? it would mean the corp would last until wardec, with less drama. but the corp will still fail hard. it means it takes longer to fail, and the problem members are less obvious and thus can cause more long-term harm.

overall, i think the removal of awox wont change anything at all, except the type and duration of drama a corp will have.

I agree with Ael. This is great. It makes incursioning corps much more viable. Not so much missioning corps - EVE would have to remove wardecs to do that - but it is definitely a step in the right direction.